Here we are, on the road: We’re still in Laughlin, NV

Sunday, October 16, 2011 Lorraine’s report

Well, we are still at the Riverside RV Resort/Casino/RV Park in Laughlin, Nevada.

The days here have just been flying by, and I can’t say we have been doing that much.

The weather is again hot, into the high 90’s to low 100’s, sunny, blue skies with wispy white clouds. Every now and then the wind blows, sometimes hard enough to shake the coach, to just enough of a breeze to cool the hot desert air. The temperatures at night are about 66-69 degrees. Our time here has been wonderful!

Last Sunday we took a drive to Lake Meade and Davis Dam, just your Sunday type of drive. It was so beautiful out we needed to get out of the house. We walked the River Walk along the Colorado River and enjoyed the warm weather.

I felt like we accomplished a lot on Monday. I had wanted to go through my closet and purge, clean and reorganize it. I spent the morning doing just that as well as the laundry and I also cleaned out the storage space under our bed. Chuck had the coach washed and waxed as well as the car. The guys did a great job and the coach looks good, as does my closet.

Finishing up, we then went to find a casino to watch the Monday Night Football game. The first one was too crowded and we couldn’t find a place to sit, and no one was around to help us, so we left.

We then headed over to another place, the Tropicana. We went to sign up for our players cards, and then got an entry for the drawings they have every time a team makes a point. You have 2 minutes to get to the announcer in the lounge to claim your prize, its various amount of $$, depending on the points made, and they draw for the end of each quarter. You can earn extra entries for playing on the machines. So we played a bit, and learned we had earned enough for the buffet so that it was free; and the buffet turned out to be very good.

Joe and Alice, our friends from Bellingham were coming into this park on Tuesday, so we were off early to get our chores done. They called just before we finished them and we stopped on our way home to make plans.

Since then we have been busy doing things everyday with them. We have gone to the casinos, to slot tournaments and of course we have eaten with them. I think we have all enjoyed each others company. Saturday the guys went to a gun show while the gals went shopping. The time flies by quickly when we are together.

Guess that’s it for me, I’m enjoying our time here in Laughlin with our friends and am looking forward to heading to the bay area to see our daughter, Susy and granddaughter, Kaitlyn for Halloween.

Until next time…

Lorraine

10/16/11 Chuck’s report

We’ve had a much quieter week, slowing down and catching our breath. The pace at Laughlin is much slower and we don’t feel the need to see/do something everyday like we did in Vegas.

The casinos are along the Colorado river on the NV. state side and the town of Bullhead City, AZ. across the river. Bullhead City has more folks living there but lots drive over and work on the NV. side. We are around 500’ elevation here so we aren’t having any problems with the air except when it gets too hot.

Sunday we walked the boardwalk along the Colorado River but it was too hot to really enjoy ourselves. Later we drove up to Davis Dam, just a few miles upstream from here. Lake Mead is formed behind the dam, a large lake with lots of recreational opportunities, from boating to fishing. We just drove around the marina and checked things out, didn’t rent any boats or anything.

There is a boat service that runs to Lake Havasu everyday from here in Laughlin, goes to London Bridge and back. It’s a 6 hour trip with a couple of hours layover at the bridge and all it’s tourist shops. Don’t think we will be taking a 6 hour boat ride from here either but it is an option if we get really bored.

We have gone to a couple of the casinos here in town, watched Monday night football at one of them. We have only gone to the casinos here three or four times in the first week for a few hours each time. Both Lorraine and I play the penny slots so can’t say we’ve win or lose a lot but I am still playing with their money. Lorraine is about ready to start a big winning streak, last place we were she came away a winner.

Our friends, Joe/Alice, got here Tuesday. They couldn’t get in the same area of the campground as us but we’ve still been able to spend lots of time with them. We’ve gone to a couple of casinos with them, played at two free slot tournaments (none of us won anything) and had a couple of buffets too.

Saturday Joe and I went to a gun show while Lorraine and Alice went shopping at the mall. Joe and I returned to watch a football game before the gals got back then we all watched the Washington Huskies beat Colorado. We then went to a restaurant across the river in Bullhead City for dinner.

After dinner, Joe and Alice went to their rig to watch the baseball playoff game while Lorraine and I watched the Stanford football team beat Washington State. Next week Washington plays at Stanford, should be a good game if todays’ games were any indications. We will be there a couple of days later and are thinking of changing our plans a bit, leave here two days earlier and possibly go to the game.

This morning we are going to a breakfast buffet using our free tickets we got for staying here at this campground. I don’t know what we will be doing afterwards but I’m sure the gals we have something for us. (Can you say CASINO?)

The weather has been about 10F warmer than normal, it’s been in the high 90s and even into triple digits twice. It only cools off to the high 60s at night but it’s nice to sit out in the mornings before it gets too hot. The temperature is too hot to be outside too long during the afternoon but everywhere you go is air conditioned. I’ve talked to a couple of folks who just got in and they were in freezing weather in Yellowstone and had some snow in Utah. All in all, I’ll take this hot weather over that. Lorraine said it was down to 33F in Bellingham on Friday night, glad we missed that too.

Like I said earlier, our plans are to head to the Bay area after here, we just have to make up our minds when we leave. We will be staying there until early November when we will head down to coast to Santa Barbara to a 1000 Trails place. We haven’t been down there in a long time, looking forward to exploring the area once again. I was stationed near there at Oxnard for about 6 months back in 1969, before I was transferred to Washington so I used to know the area a little bit. I bet it has changed some in the past 40 years!

We didn’t take too many pictures this week but I’ll go through what we have and post a few.

One of the casinos at Laughlin and the Colorado River directly behind.